Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer AI Platform

Who We Are

Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City Salt Lake City London Edinburgh Pune Dubai Geneva and São Paulo.

The Role

We are currently seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the AI Platform team to drive the design architecture and production posture of Addepars AI Platform and our products and solutions. This team is at the center of Addepars mission to integrate AI across our product suite and is growing quickly.

This role focuses on building a scalable platform and infrastructure to power deep rich AI capabilities and products. As the AI platform expands you will be a central architect of the Core Platform layer building the managed services serving infrastructure observability and cross-platform integrations that turn experimental AI capabilities into scalable production software. This includes productionizing the cutting edge of the latest AI developments like agents MCP computer use etc; alongside designing and automating the operational backbone of Addepars AI stack.

The ideal candidate will play a staff leading role in defining implementing and strategically evolving Addepars AI Production infrastructure and the products it delivers. This includes designing deploying monitoring automating and optimizing all operational aspects of Addepars AI platform with a focus on reliability scalability and efficiency.

Applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where this role is based on the first day of employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

What Youll Do

• Design and build the production runtime for LLM-based agents and products creating the services and infrastructure that serve autonomous agents.
• Develop deep application-level knowledge to proactively inform and influence requirements constraints and best practices for implementing composable complex AI systems.
• Lead the design implementation and automation of production infrastructure on a variety of cloud environments (Kubernetes/Databricks) to enable us to ship and scale AI features instantly.
• Evangelize and promote disciplined best engineering practices to enforce strong production hygiene and culture.
• Initiate and lead collaborations with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve complex application or infrastructure issues serving as a technical subject matter expert.
• Architect build and maintain advanced automated CI/CD pipelines e.g. using Jenkins ArgoCD AWS CodeBuild/Pipeline GitHub Actions or similar establishing best practices for deployment strategies (e.g. blue/green canary).
• Develop systems and best practices monitoring alerting and troubleshooting of our probabilistic and AI-driven systems and broader software stack.

Who You Are

• Extensive experience as a Software/Backend Engineer with a track record of taking on increasing responsibility.
• Experience across the full product lifecycle: designing implementing shipping scaling operationalizing and maintaining technology/SaaS products.
• Exceptional Programming skills and fundamentals in Python/Go/Java with a proven track record of building large scale production systems.
• Proficient experience with diverse compute environments including microservices (K8s) Databricks and serverless architectures (e.g. AWS Lambda).
• Demonstrable experience leading initiatives with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform in complex multi-account environments.
• Proficient experience with comprehensive monitoring and alerting stacks (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry/cloud-native tools) with a focus on observability strategy.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with multi-functional teams articulate complex technical concepts and influence outcomes.
  
  
• Bonus points/Nice to haves:
  • Extensive experience with Databricks (Unity Catalog Model Serving Jobs).
  • Demonstrable experience writing and contributing to significant systems automation tooling or open-source projects is a strong plus.
  • Specific experience with LLMs and agentic systems and associated technologies such as Langchain Vector DBs or MLFlow.
  • Exposure to industry practices in financial services or other highly regulated data environments is a plus.

Our Values

• Act Like an Owner - Think and operate with intention purpose and care. Own outcomes.
• Build Together - Collaborate to unlock the best solutions. Deliver lasting value.
• Champion Our Clients - Exceed client expectations. Our clients success is our success.
• Drive Innovation - Be bold and unconstrained in problem solving. Transform the industry.
• Embrace Learning - Engage our community to broaden our perspective. Bring a growth mindset.

In addition to our core values Addepar is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We seek to bring together diverse ideas experiences skill sets perspectives backgrounds and identities to drive innovative solutions. We commit to promoting a welcoming environment where inclusion and belonging are held as a shared responsibility.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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